A Day in Atlanta

Mike has this week off from school. Its nice for him to relax around the apartment of course but its also nice to get out and go do fun stuff that we don't get to do when he's in school. So we planned a day trip to Atlanta. We planned to try out Fernbank museum and to have a picnic too. Just a nice simple relaxing day.

The view when you walk into the museum

 The museum is a decent size and it focuses on Georgia so it was interesting to see how things how changed and evolved in this region. We got lucky too that it wasn't crowded while we were there so we could actually enjoy things.

So even though the dinosaur bones weren't real, they were built to scale which was still pretty impressive. Also, if you know me then you know I love dinosaurs so I thought the dinosaurs were pretty cool.

The main reason we went to this museum was to see the whale exhibit. Mike has been talking about seeing this since we went to the aquarium last year and saw whale sharks. Unfortunately you couldn't take any pictures in that part of the museum (which is sad because it was seriously the best part of the whole thing). We got to see the skeleton of a 59 ft. male sperm whale and a 40 ft female sperm whale which was amazing and the skeletons of some much smaller whales as well. It was really cool to see.

Just some pictures of the other things we got to see in the museum (I didn't realize how few pictures I took):

We got to pretend to be a weather man and a weather women...Mike blended into the rain

So here is my review of the museum. I would give it 3.5 out of 5 stars. It's not too bad for a state natural history museum and they have a lot of exhibits for kids. The reason I give it a lower ranking is because a lot of the rooms are pretty sparse as far as artifacts and those types of things. Also, some of the signs were missing writing that had been torn or rubbed off. For the price you pay to get in, you expect to be able to read all of the plaques at the very least. The special exhibit was what made it all worth it for me but without that it would have been much more disappointing. It also would probably have been more interesting if I didn't already know a lot of the information.

After the museum, we were going to head downtown and eat at a park. However, we knew the park was free but we figured we would have to pay for parking so we decided to go see the Atlanta temple since we were so close and just have a nice lunch at the temple.

We also couldn't leave the beautiful temple grounds without taking a picture of my belly.

Picture taken at 29 weeks and 3 days

 Even though the museum was a bit disappointing, we still had a great time just being out and going to see new things. We love to explore new places and go see new things so this was a fun trip :)